Gloucester Gets Museum

January 17, 1990

GLOUCESTER — Applause echoed from the hands of a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday as the county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to turn the Roane Building on the Gloucester Court Green into a museum and historical office.

Speaking on behalf of the Gloucester Historical Society, Judge John E. DeHardit gently reminded the supervisors that they once promised that when the county commonwealth's attorney moved out of the building, it could be turned into a museum. The commonwealth's attorney vacated the building Tuesday.

Gloucester resident Caroline Sinclair noted she was concerned that many artifacts have already been lost because the county had no museum.

"We haven't presented this county's history according to its true worth," she said. "And as a result, people are taking precious treasures out of the county and putting them in other museums ..."

The supervisors appointed the Gloucester Historical Committee overseer of the museum.